UPS Teamsters ready to stage America's biggest strike since 1997, with solidarity as the main sticking point
Unionized UPS Teamsters – 260,000 of them – are set to strike in the biggest American strike since UPS's unionized drivers walked out in 1997.
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GOP, Democrats dodge disaster in California primaries
Republicans and Democrats alike appear to have escaped calamity in a crucial day of coast-to-coast primary battles as they fight to shape the political battlefield for the fall.
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Giuliani says Kim Jong Un got 'on his hands and knees and begged for' the summit with Trump
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who's now a lawyer for President Donald Trump, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un begged the president to move forward with a planned summit after Trump abruptly canceled it in late May.
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Argentina cancels Israel World Cup friendly after Gaza violence
Argentina has cancelled a football World Cup warm-up match with Israel, apparently under pressure over Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Obama-era license aimed to let Iran convert money in dollars
The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.
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UK Border police power to hold suspected foreign agents
Border police would be given the powers to stop and detain suspected foreign intelligence agents if a new bill passes through parliament.
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Sudan Says U.S. Hasn't Lifted Technology Sanctions
The U.S. hasn’t lifted economic sanctions against Sudan on telecommunications and other technology sectors since the Trump administration announced last October that it would partially lift sanctions against Sudan, the country’s telecommunications minister Ibrahim El-Mirghani told reporters in the capital Khartoum.
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US police arrest soldier after stolen armoured vehicle chase
A soldier in the US has been arrested after stealing an armoured military vehicle and leading police on a two-hour chase through a busy city.
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US child migrants: Sessions defends border separations
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has defended separating migrant children from their parents at the US border.
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Migrant kids could be held in US military bases at Mexico border
US military bases could soon be used as holding facilities for migrant children that have been separated from their parents at the southern border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies.
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'This is no swimming place for Nazis': German far-right leader has clothes stolen while swimming in a lake
The co-leader of a German anti-immigrant party had to walk to a police station from the shores of a lake outside Berlin wearing only his underwear after his clothes were stolen while he was swimming, the Maerkische Allgemeine newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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A class of 8th graders were given bulletproof shields before starting high school to protect them from shootings
A class of eighth-graders graduating middle school have been given bulletproof shields as gifts to prepare them for potential mass shootings when they get to high school.
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Stanford rape case judge Aaron Persky removed from office
A US judge who was widely criticised for his leniency towards a campus rapist has been removed from office by voters.
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Arizona cops on leave after harrowing CCTV footage shows beating of unarmed man
Three Arizona police officers and one sergent are on administrative leave after CCTV footage emerged allegedly showing them punching and kneeing an unarmed man.
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